Honey Days!!

Well, I'm finally able to update, it's been driving me nuts! John, Andy (John's friend), Makynna, Livia and I went to grandma and grandpa Ribstein's the last weekend in July for Honey Days. This is my home town of approx 250 people which was turning 125 years old. We had a great time.
Thursday night was the fireworks. The show was great, better than the 4th of July here in Moorhead. This picture turned out pretty neat, and Makynna pointed out the fact that it looks like a jelly fish. Hmmm....didn't know that she knew what they were, but it does.
This is Livia during the fireworks, my grandma - her great-grandma is holding her. She said that everytime one was fired Livi would jump. She is holding on pretty tight to her tank top. She was still holding on when we went into the house too. I don't think she knew what to think.

This is Jed and Kacy with the twins- Hunter and Talan (L-R). I hope I got that right. The baby shower was really fun. Livia wasn't real sure of the babies. She sat next to them and acted like she wanted to touch them, but would get really close and back away. They just weren't like her dolls at home.
This was hilarious! Everytime that Livi would crawl to the cement from the outdoor rug at my parents house she would come up off her knees and walk on all fours. I'm sure the concrete hurt her knees, but it was a funny sight.

This was in the parade on Saturday, in case you can't tell the theme for "honey" days had to due with honey and bees...

Kolby, Makynna and Chloe waving during the parade to get candy. The parade lasted 1 1/2 hours! This was the FIRST time that Makynna sat by me and said that she was "too tired" to get any more candy (with only 5 minutes left).
My Uncle Russ came up with his Model A and John and Andy got to ride in the back and throw candy. I think the boys had a good time. There was a teen dance on Friday that I wasn't sure if they went to or not....the bedroom door was shut when we got back from the baby shower. I opened it and got a big whiff of cologne, that answered my question. Normally you don't open the door to a teenage boy's room and smell anything good.

Just a cute picture of Livi eating ice-cream.

They had free rides at the park on what I would call a "wagon train" it was a bunch of little carts/wagons pulled by a 4 wheeler. This is Makynna with my cousin's little girl Alayah (sorry if I spelled it wrong Kim)....isn't she adorable!!

This is my brother Cory's car (which used to be Brad's in college) taking part in the "burn out" after the car show.

They had a kid parade on Sunday that the kids took part in. The sign says "They "THINK" they're queen bees". Kolby drove while the girls threw candy that was in the trailer that he was pulling. They had a blast.
Makynna decided to take part in the tractor pull after the kiddie parade. I was suprised that she wanted to do it - being a "city girl" and all.

She ended up getting 2nd place for 4 year old girls (out of 3) and cousin Kolby got 1st place for 4 year old boys (out of 5, I think). He qualified for the "state tractor pull" in September. I thought there might have been an issue with the fact that Kolby got a trophy and Makynna only got a medal (especially with the lack of sleep for the past few days). Makynna just said that "Even though I got a medal, I think I'm just going to pretend that it is a trophy." That works!!

We had a great time, we'll be back next year!!!